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re-rolling is it works I can't tell okay it's on Welcome Back to the bunker just took a little break so we're going to continue this is part 2 of the US foreign policy 1865 to 1914 and this is a fun unit again the focus that I'd like you to pay attention to is comparing how we go from early expansion which is within the continental United States to how we go overseas and that's a really good way to organize all this information if you can compare the early American program to the later American program you can see a lot of similarities and lot of attitude snake fall together that's a neat little gif the United States eagle is attacking South America I wonder if that has anything to do with our topic again we're going to look at Alaska we're going to look at International. zarai Diaz motives behind the expansion of American territory at least imperialistic attitude again social Darwinism says that it's legal it's it's okay for white Anglo-Saxon Protestants to dominate non-whites brown people essentially and there they are as they treat they thought of them as children and therefore made them it made them justify their exploitation of those populations will look at that Spanish-American War again very very interesting look at that in the open door policy in China that's a fun story and then the last two big Concepts the big stick policy which is Theodore Roosevelt and the basically the expansion of American influence in Latin America and then lastly the last two are Taft Dollar Diplomacy using money instead of power and then moral call Mickey Wilson's attitude of you know kind of Christian values in diplomacy interesting century so let's get to it here's a quote we must have no Scruples about Exterminating this other race standing in the way of progress in Enlightenment that's an American officer in the Philippines and why is that important is that evidence kind of white supremacy attitude saying it's okay to kill these people they're standing in the way of progress of modern society and don't mind killing him again to the Philippines was lost of atrocities committed by the United States there is a link between American expansion and racism Josiah Strong was one of the popular racist of the day again racism was taught and universities racism the classical ranking of the races this race is superior because of these cultural elements this race is in fear therefore it must be genetic and they're suggesting that there is a difference genetically that some races are superior totally flawed false logic as well as unscientific elements these are the attitudes that the Americans are going looking at the other parts of the world with and they're saying okay if we believe that we are special there for these other for inferior it's okay to take the land from the Indians it's okay to take it from the Mexicans and of course the Filipinos can't be independent and so there we have to be there big brother in in help them out and make sure that they're taking care of fundamental racist attitudes underlying American expansion as well as European expansion for that matter and here's some buzzwords when you see this term Anglo-Saxon that's that's a buzzword for race racism here's a quote god with infinite wisdom and skill is training the Anglo-Saxon race for the final competition in the competition of the races again totally problematic but again it is part of our you can say this is similar to early America and America expansion elements again there's a pattern we will intervene in weaker Nations this is another pattern we will intervene and weaker Nations when we have an economic or a business interest fundamentals if it's not a economic interest we didn't really have much you know we did we weren't there to change the world generally have definitely not our government our government becomes involved when it's an economic interest sometimes it was political you know we used to talk about Bush's National Security strategy by going into Iraq one of the reasons he wanted to go to Iraq was to plant a democracy in the Middle East and maybe that was a noble cause maybe that was righteous maybe it wasn't but it was a fiasco none the less there was economic interest oil yeah we see that with the first Bush Iraq War that was a oil threatening the oil in Kuwait excetera but you'll notice Hawaii chuba Philippines China Colombia and Panama Nicaragua Mexico all of these will relate economic interests of the United States I always show this map and this is very important matter if you look at it you see the United States is over here and of course Africa's completely carved up if you look at the the key here you see there this is Belgium Great Britain with all the colors down at the bottom that tells.you Africa was in play was totally gobbled up Asia is being divided Australia India is controlled by England France right here in McCall that French Indochina Korea was controlled by Japan Germany is got two parts of Africa France parts of Africa you know the Italians Libya Etc Italians over in Somalia and so United States is coming late to the imperialist game at 19 100 we barely have claims over the Philippines with the Spanish-American War we get Guam over here that some of these islands in the Pacific and then where the protectorate over Cuba as well as we took territory of specifically Puerto Rico and so the point I make with this map again is we are new to the Imperial game but we didn't want to be left out even people like country like Belgium are coming late to the game countries like the Netherlands have been around in France and England all of them had possession United States won here's a document from the Secretary of State 1898 and the McKinley is saying the output of the United States manufacturers developed by the remarkable in genius an industrial scale of our people has reached the point of large excess above the demand of Home consumption under this under these circumstances it is not surprising that greater interest should be exhibited among our manufacturers in Economist in the large band of foreign markets for American good with again this is talking is our our expansion of our economy through manufacturing has produced tons of surplus is extra Goods until what does that mean Surplus Goods we need places to sell it we need to support our infrastructure and trade overseas and that's fundamental so we can we have in just realized we have markets and we need to sell them overseas in order to sell Goods overseas we need a Navy because look at we're going to China we're going to Europe from a Latin America and the rules of the day was strong Navy strong maybe and that's where we come to Alfred T Mohan Alfred T Mohan was a Commodore he was an admiral and he was a staunch imperialist he said we need a strong Navy to support our trade and we needed calling stops we need repair facility we need a permanent basis and so he's going to be you know the Godfather of American imperialism and of course why do we care about this is because who who basically paid attention to Alfred T Mohan was TR Theodore Roosevelt he becomes assistant Secretary of the Navy and he demands that this book mahan's book the influence of seapower on History which is one of the key terms you have to know he had that sent to every ship in every captain in the fleet be cut in ER was a fundamental imperialist and he wanted a strong Navy and strong foreign policy so that the Americans kid have a greater power in the world and Hebrew we had that vision of course that's what we're known for steel today here's a wonderful map that shows okay United States over here China's over here 8000 Miles so this illustrates main idea if we had a coaling spot here in Hawaii and the Samoan Islands and the Philippines that's going to facilitate trade throughout the Pacific and what a surprise we end up taking over the Hawaiian Islands the Samoan Islands the Philippines the Marshall Islands over here also Guam is here. I can draw this out and it's pretty neat but you got Hawaii Guam Philippines it's just fundamentally strategic to have resources in the Pacific and that's going to be one of our strong strong areas all right so let's let's transition now to China kind of skewed China's big trading with United Japan in the beginning in early 1850s we get China Japan to open up China's where the big money is our first interest in China comes with missionaries and missionaries by themselves are fundamentally have these kind of racist attitudes that you know indigenous beliefs are not as good as the Christian belief it's so they're going to have you know they'll look down upon the Buddhists and the Hindus and all the other non-Christian religions of of Asia but they go there first and they are very positive influence for number of different reasons they have different levels of success but would we go into China to a great degree with American missionaries likewise we going to Alaska with missionaries excuse me we going to Hawaii with missionaries let's talk about Alaska we buy Alaska Seward's folly for about $17 Russia the Russians will reject regret it so that's the first big expansion post 1850s outside of the continental United States Samoa we get a deal with Samoa get right to have a navy base at toggle toggle in Hawaii again we have sugar cane is economic interest United States wants to get colonies again we had missionaries there and we end up seizing power 1893 the story of Hawaii is kind of interesting week of this queen liliuokalani was the the last queen of Spain excuse me of Hawaii basically the story of Hawaii is American Planters go there American missionaries go there they gradually get influence with the tribal government the Hawaiian government Queen liliuokalani the American Planters don't like the way she's running the show they want to kick her out and then Americans like the Dole pineapple company in the Dole fruit company were instrumental in overthrowing Hawaii with a coup d'etat they also appealed it American government and eventually get annexed the first interest we have in Hawaii was sugarcane sugar exporting Americans get involved in the trade we we getting involved with the government of Hawaii we take over the government of Hawaii we call on the government of the United States to Annex Hawaii totally aggression in economic interest okay as we go to the Spanish-American War these are things you got to pay attention to the causes of the Spanish-American War McKinley is President yellow journalism is an issue Pulitzer New York World William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal those are going to be relating to yellow journalism we have the explosion of the USS Maine we have the de lome letter from a Spanish Ambassador we have Cuban Independence you have Theodore Roosevelt the Rough Riders once the war is declared you have what's going on in the Philippines with the resistance known as aguinaldo these things were going to cover when we get to this okay I need to start here I need to take a break my voice is going so

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